Five College African Studies : Rowland Abiodun

Rowland Abiodun

Professor

Department of Black Studies; Art and Art Studies
Amherst College

Chair, African Scholars Program Executive Committee

Office: 107 Cooper House
Telephone: 542-5801
E-mail: roabiodun@amherst.edu
Web: https://cms.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/roabiodun

Degree:

Research Interests: History, style, and aesthetics of African art, particularly Yoruba art of West Africa.

Courses include: African Art & Diaspora; African Art and the Diaspora; Arts/Orature in Africa; Visual Arts and Orature in Africa; Myth, Ritual and Iconography in West Africa; Survey of African Art.

Publications: Co-authored Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought (1989), Yoruba Art and Aesthetics (1991), and edited The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Art (1994).

Languages: Yoruba.

Geographic focus: Nigeria.

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	Rowland Abiodun Professor Department of Black Studies; Art and Art Studies Amherst College Chair, African Scholars Program Executive Committee Office: 107 Cooper House Telephone: 542-5801 E-mail: roabiodun@amherst.edu Web: https://cms.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/roabiodun Degree: Research Interests: History, style, and aesthetics of African art, particularly Yoruba art of West Africa. Courses include: African Art & Diaspora; African Art and the Diaspora; Arts/Orature in Africa; Visual Arts and Orature in Africa; Myth, Ritual and Iconography in West Africa; Survey of African Art. Publications: Co-authored Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought (1989), Yoruba Art and Aesthetics (1991), and edited The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Art (1994). Languages: Yoruba. Geographic focus: Nigeria.